[Monotone-devel] RFC: 'suspend' certs

2007-07-07 Thread William Uther
Hi all, I'm busy scratching mtn itches. Another on my list is that I tend to refrain from using branches as very lightweight objects because they never go away. Now, the mythical policy branches were touted as a solution to this, but I must admit I don't have a clear idea of how

Re: [Monotone-devel] RFC: 'suspend' certs

2007-07-07 Thread Julio M. Merino Vidal
On 07/07/2007, at 20:53, William Uther wrote: The meaning of suspend is not this is a bad revision: we already have test failure for that. The meaning is I don't want mtn to bother me with this revision. Or I don't want other users to bother with this revision because it's dead,

Re: [Monotone-devel] RFC: 'suspend' certs

2007-07-07 Thread Richard Levitte
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Sat, 7 Jul 2007 11:53:35 -0700, William Uther [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: willu.mailingListsAnyway, I have another proposed solution. It willu.mailingLists is a 'suspend' cert. It looks the same as a willu.mailingLists 'branch' cert in that it contains the name

Re: [Monotone-devel] RFC: 'suspend' certs

2007-07-07 Thread William Uther
On 07/07/2007, at 12:10 PM, Richard Levitte wrote: willu.mailingLists ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Color_of_the_bikeshed ) It should be clear by now that the bikeshed must be colored violet with pink dots. Green! On 07/07/2007, at 12:02 PM, Julio M. Merino Vidal wrote: Shouldn't it

Re: [Monotone-devel] RFC: 'suspend' certs

2007-07-07 Thread Bruce Stephens
William Uther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] Anyway, I have another proposed solution. It is a 'suspend' cert. It looks the same as a 'branch' cert in that it contains the name of a branch. The effect of a 'suspend' cert is to remove that revision from any list of heads for that

Re: [Monotone-devel] RFC: 'suspend' certs

2007-07-07 Thread Richard Levitte
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Sat, 7 Jul 2007 13:35:07 -0700, William Uther [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: willu.mailingLists On 07/07/2007, at 12:10 PM, Richard Levitte wrote: willu.mailingLists willu.mailingLists Only one, really: how do we handle irresponsable willu.mailingLists usage of that

Re: [Monotone-devel] RFC: 'suspend' certs

2007-07-07 Thread Daniel Carosone
On Sat, Jul 07, 2007 at 11:53:35AM -0700, William Uther wrote: I'm busy scratching mtn itches. Excellent. Anyway, I have another proposed solution. It is a 'suspend' cert. It looks the same as a 'branch' cert in that it contains the name of a branch. The effect of a 'suspend' cert is